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While Augustus and Osterman draw fans from the more popular sports, Thorlakson poses a different problem for Corriero. Not only is she a fellow Canadian, but she also hails from the same hometown—Langley, British Columbia—and attended the same high school—Walnut Grove—as Corriero’s former teammate, Raimondi...
While Augustus and Osterman draw fans from the more popular sports, Thorlakson poses a different problem for Corriero. Not only is she a fellow Canadian, but she also hails from the same hometown—Langley, British Columbia—and attended the same high school—Walnut Grove—as Corriero’s former teammate, Raimondi...
...easy to culture wild microbes in the lab, but much can be learned by sequencing the genes contained in a sample of earth, air or water. Just this past April, scientists from the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a Department of Energy lab in Walnut Creek, Calif., announced in the journal Science that they had for the first time identified the unique mixes of microbes that thrive in different sorts of ecosystems. In farm soil, for example, there are any number of genes that produce substances that break down plant material--rotting genes, you might call them. In seawater, by contrast...
...that site, suggesting that each 200-mile stretch of ocean represents a vastly different ecosystem. And that's just from scratching the surface, says JGI director Eddy Rubin: "There are whole domains of life that haven't been touched yet." --Reported by Melissa August/ Washington and Laura A. Locke/ Walnut Creek...
After graduating, Wiprud went across the river to Boston University to study composition with David Del Tredici. From there, he taught at Walnut Hill, a performing arts high school in nearby Natick...